Well, it didn’t take long for President Obama to boast about the job numbers.

The president says this morning’s jobs report is good news for the recovery and shows the economy is “speeding up.” He calls for Congress to extend the payroll tax and says they should do it without drama.

Specifically, with regards to the economic recovery, he tells Congressional leaders: “don’t muck it up.”

The economy has now created mroe than 200,000 jobs for two straight months. Perfect timing for the president’s re-election campaign. Obama also pointed out 3.7 million new jobs have been created over the last 23 months.

You get the sense the improving economy could be his ticket to a second term in office.

For more details, check out what our friends at Washington Wire have to say on the subject:

The White House pointed to the report as more evidence that the economy is continuing to recover, and used it to push the agenda Mr. Obama detailed in his State of the Union address as well as an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits through the end of the year.

“It is critical that we continue the economic policies that are helping us to dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the recession that began at the end of 2007,” Alan Krueger, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, wrote in a blog post Friday morning. Mr. Krueger called the jobs report “an encouraging sign.”

“Nonetheless, we need faster growth to put more Americans back to work,” he said.

Setting the tone for Republicans’ mixed reaction to the employment news, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said, “We welcome the fact that jobs were created and unemployment declined. Unfortunately, these numbers cannot hide the fact that President Obama’s policies have prevented a true economic recovery. We can do better.’’

Comments (5 of 31)

Let me get this straight. Jobs disappear as late as last month - it's Bush's and Congress's fault. One month of good data and Obama claims credit. Yet he hedges his bets by saying, in advance, if it goes back down - it's not his fault, it's Congress. Seriously, who voted for this guy?

9:52 am February 5, 2012

Sig wrote :

Intercepted Letter to Speaker Boehner--

Dear Mr. Speaker,

How could you let this happen? We were counting on you to wreck the economy while pretending to help it. But it's recovering anyway. Now we'll be stuck with the big O for another 4 years.

Start blocking more necessary government programs. Try again to get us to default on our bonds. Do everything possible to destroy the US credit rating. Pull out all the stops.

"Don't muck it up." Bwahahahahaha!!!! You KNOW what he really wanted to say! LOL!!! I wish these people would stop calling him a closet Muslim and a closet racist. I think these people are projecting their stuff onto the President.

He's not doing bad considering he was handed 2 wars, one started solely based on "bad information". The conservative faction in congress will continue to block anything and everything that comes their way just so they can try to make the claim in Nov that Obama accomplished nothing. They care nothing for the plight of the unemployed or the working class. They care nothing for job creation. They care nothing about solving the problems we face. They only care about taking the White House. The best way forward is to rid the House of the teabaggers.

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